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Victor Hugo
Age: 83 †
Born: 1802
Born: February 26
Died: 1885
Died: May 22
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First problem. To produce wealth. Second problem. To distribute it.
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God whose gifts in gracious flood Unto all who seek are sent, Only asks you to be good And is content.
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To be wicked does not insure prosperity - for the inn did not succeed well.
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Death belongs to God alone by what right do men touch that unknown thing?
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In short, I am doing what I can, I suffer with the same universal suffering, and I try to assuage it, I possess only the puny forces of a man, and I cry to all: “Help me!
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The soul has greater need of the ideal than of the real
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If it were (Is it not) outrageous that society should treat with such rigid precision those of its members who were most poorly endowed in the distribution or wealth that chance had made, and who were, therefore, most worthy of indulgence.
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One of the hardest labours of the just man is to expunge from his soul a malevolence which it is difficult to efface.
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Strange to say, the luminous world is the invisible world the luminous world is that which we do not see. Our eyes of flesh see only night.
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The smaller it is the heart, more hatred houses.
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Everything Changes. The only thing that remains immovable across the centuries and fixes the character of a people is cooking.
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When love has fused and mingled two beings in a sacred and angelic unity, the secret of life has been discovered so far as they are concerned they are no longer anything more than the two boundaries of the same destiny they are no longer anything but the two wings of the same spirit. Love, soar.
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Teach the ignorant as much as you can society is culpable in not providing a free education for all and it must answer for the night which it produces. If the soul is left in darkness sins will be committed. The guilty one is not he who commits the sin, but he who causes the darkness.
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A cannonball travels only two thousand miles an hour light travels two hundred thousand miles a second. Such is the superiority of Jesus Christ over Napoleon.
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Stupidity talks, vanity acts.
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You are adorable, mademoiselle. I study your feet with the microscope and your soul with the telescope.
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It is sad to tell, but after having tried society, which had caused his misfortune, he tried Providence which created society, and condemned it also.
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